Evans C S
Dept. of Psychology, Washington University, St. Louis, MO 63130, USA.
Behav Processes. 1985 Aug;11(2):113-21. doi: 10.1016/0376-6357(85)90053-1.
The display of 24 individual male Siamese fighting fish to an unresponsive stimulus conspecific was measured, and the fish were then placed together in pairs. For 11 of the 12 pairs, the outcome of the aggressive interaction which ensued was predicted by the gill cover erection durations obtained in the pre-fight isolate tests. The implications of this result for theories of display function are discussed.
对24条暹罗斗鱼雄鱼展示无反应刺激同种鱼的情况进行了测量,然后将这些鱼两两放在一起。在12对鱼中,有11对鱼随后发生的攻击互动结果可通过争斗前隔离测试中获得的鳃盖竖起持续时间来预测。讨论了这一结果对展示功能理论的意义。